Construction Begins On New Addition To Trinity Episcopal Church
Mount Airy granite extension add backs of Trinity Church facing Trinity Street. Two floors include five classrooms a nursery and rector’s study on top. bottom houses a kitchen and large assembly room. Size forty eight and a half by thirty feet. cost about twenty thousand dollars. Completion planned for August first with cornerstone ceremony. Reverend Mark Roesser leads church.
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Main Street
Trinity Episcopal Church
Mount Airy
Trinity Street
Produce Street
John Clark
Clark
Frank Sydnor
Jack Springthorpe
Mark Roesser
Hospital Board To Meet Monday Night In Mount Airy
Mount Airy hospital board schedules a Monday night session amid annexation disputes over Banner site. City officials expect action toward speeding the new hospital and may call for an election. A petition with over 1900 residents protests annexation and urges use of Hadley property inside city limits per Medical Care Commission preference.
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Mount Airy
Banner Hospital
J.C. Hill
Banner
Hospital Board
Hadley
Medical Care Commission
Carl Goad Arrested by FBI for May Robbery
Carl Goad 21 faces charges as an alleged participant in a May 12 assault and robbery at Sides Mill. Praston Thom is serving 6 to 7 years after pleading guilty. Goad was tracked to San Francisco by the FBI and is to be extradited to Surry County for trial.
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United States
Carl Goad
Walter Sides
Sides Mill
Praston Thomas
Goad
FBI
West Coast
San Francisco
Surry County
Dover Baptist Revival Opens Near White Plains
A revival series starts at Dover Baptist Church near White Plains and runs through July 4. Visiting speaker Rev. Charlie Jones of Boonville, known for evangelistic preaching and gospel singing, leads the services starting Monday at 7 40 p.m. Rev. Roy W. Johnson, pastor, delivers the first Sunday night message. public urged to attend.
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Dover Baptist Church
White Plains
Charlie Jones
Boonville
Jones
Shady Grove Baptist Church
Michigan
West Virginia
Virginia
Country Gentleman to Change Name to Better Farming
Philadelphia Curtis Publishing Co announces the farm magazine will be renamed Better Farming later this year after 101 years as Country Gentleman. Editor Robert H. Reed says the new name reflects the magazine’s contents more accurately.
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Philadelphia
Curtis Publishing Co
Country Gentleman
Robert H. Reed
Land transfers linked to city annexation inquiry
The NEWS reports Mr. Banner may be disposing of property for possible annexation into the city. Previously he bought land from M. F. Davis, and the later deal involves Banner transferring five tracts to prominent town citizens.
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Banner
M. F. Davis
Mr. Banner
Country Club Pro Pattison Resigns Effective August
George Pat Pattison golf pro at the local Country Club resigns his position effective August 21 announced by A P Turnmyre club president. Pattison joined Mount Airy a year ago succeeding Arthur Ham and plans for the future are unknown. No replacement has been found. Pattison praised as first class greens keeper with a fine pro shop and strong social direction improving the course quickly.
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George
Pat) Pattison
A. P. Turnmyre
Mount Airy
Arthur Ham
Turnmyre
Pattison
Group Backs Democratic Rotation of Mount Airy School Board
At a June meeting the Junior Woman's Club voted to support a rotating five year term for Mount Airy school board members. The plan would have town commissioners appoint a new member each year to serve five years. The club seeks broad community backing and will present the idea to civic clubs PTAs and the Town Board of Commissioners.
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Junior Woman’s Club
Mount Airy
Junior Woman's Club
Town Board of Commissioners
News To Hold Second Primary This Saturday
The NEWS reports a second primary Saturday to decide local races for Sheriff in Mount Airy township and Recorder's Court judge. Sam Patterson faces Neal Thompson for Sheriff while Judge Harry Llewellyn opposes R S Westmoreland. Polls open 6 40 a m close 6 20 p m. office will tabulate results that night.
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Mount Airy Township
Dudge
Recorder's Court
Sam CC. Patterson
Neal Thompson
Harry H. Llewellyn
R. S
Sig) Westmoreland
Bill Venable Joins The Mount Airy News Staff
Bill Venable, son of Mrs. J. R. Venable of this city, joins the Mount Airy NEWS for the summer. He is a rising UNC Chapel Hill senior majoring in journalism and president of the college Press Club. He serves on the Daily Tar Heel staff and is a Franklin High School graduate in the class of 6?.
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Bill Venable
J. R. Venable
Mount Airy News
Mr. Venable
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Press Club
Daily Tar Heel
Franklin High School
Burton Family Visits Raleigh and Wake Forest Friends
Mr and Mrs Louis Burton and daughter Kathy spent the weekend as guests of friends in Raleigh and Wake Forest.
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Louis Burton
Kathy
Raleigh
Wake Forest
Grading New Highway 52 Almost Completed
Jaycee parade plans outline a 3 30 pm procession starting at the YMCA to Cherry Street then north on Main to Elm. The event precedes the Miss Mount Airy pageant at the High School Auditorium and includes prizes for best business displays, bands, clowns, floats, and various local organizations.
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YMCA
Cherry Street
Main Street
Elm
The
Jaycees
Color Guard
Mount Airy High School
Cable Dairies
Curtiss Candy Co
Alowns
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
J. J. Jones High School
Mount Airy
Airline Executive To Speak At Kiwanis Meeting
The Kiwanis Club will host Bill McGee Passenger Sales Manager Piedmont Airlines Winston-Salem as tonight's speaker. The YMCA event starts at 6 30 PM. At the previous meeting Lions and Rotary aided the Salvation Army delegate expense to Atlanta.
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Kiwanis Club
Bill McGee
Piedmont Airlines
Winston-Salem
YMCA
Lions and Rotary Clubs
Salvation Army
Atlanta
Sherwood Tidman
Myrtle and
Mildred Bowles
Donald Corns
Airman Galyean Graduates From Naha Academy
Airman First Class Thomas W. Galyean age 20, son of Mrs. Martha E. Galyean of Longap route 1, Was born in Longap and is part of the 78 graduates of the Non Commissioned Officer Academy at Naha Air Base Okinawa. The academy began at Pacific Air Base in February and covers three weeks of leadership and military procedure to boost non commissioned officer capabilities. Galyean graduated Longap High School in 1951 and joined the Air Force after graduation.
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Thomas W. Galyean
Martha E. Galyean
Longap
Route 1
Naha Air Base
Okinawa
Pacific Air Base
Galyean
Longap High School
Air Force
Elkin Fireman Belton, Sr. Hospitalized After Heart Attack
M. W. Belton, Sr., a local fireman, was rushed to Chatham Memorial Hospital in Elkin Tuesday night with a heart attack. His condition is reported as improved.
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M. W. Belton, Sr
Chatham Memoral Hospital
Elkin
Local Man Receives Degree In Medicine
Eric Jarrell son of Mr and Mrs Ben A Jarrell of this city route 3 received an M D degree on June 14 from the University of Virginia Hospital He did undergraduate work at Brevard College and the University of Virginia He earned a B A from UVA in 1950 and held a Virginia Commonwealth scholarship the past three years He is a Phi Theta Kappa and Nu Sigma Nu member and served in the Pacific with the U S Navy during World War II.
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Eric Jarrell
Ben A. Jarrell
Route 3
University of Virginia Hospital
Jarrell
Brevard College
University of Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia
Phi Theta Kappa Honorary Society
Nu Sigma Nu
Pacific
U. S. Navy
Local Pastor Announces Bethlehem Broadcast of Son’s Music
Rev Herbert B Johnson pastor of Grace Moravian Church learns his son Dr Thor Johnson director of the Cincinnati Symphony will broadcast on CBS from Bethlehem Pa Friday night 8 30 to 9 00. Dr Johnson spends the week in Bethlehem conducting a festival and a similar event is planned for Winston Salem next year.
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Herbert B. Johnson
Grace Moravian Church
Bethlehem
Thor Johnson
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
CBS Radio Network
Dr. Johnson
Winston-Salem
Two Curves On Last Part Of Pilot Road
The Mount Airy to Pilot Mountain road nears completion with grading nearly finished and surfacing bids planned for July. The project includes a four mile straight section, 24 foot gravel and asphalt surface, 14 inch stone bed, ten foot shoulders, and a sixty foot width for drainage. A Cook School Road bridge will replace a dangerous crossing, and J C Critcher of Asheville leads grading with state and local engineers supervising the work.
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Mount Airy
Pilot Mountain
Highway Commission
Boone's Hill
Boone’s Hill
Tom's Creek
Cook School
J. C. Critcher
Asheville
J. C. Councill
North Wilkesboro
R. M. Bradshaw
W. R. Pendleton
Andy Birkner
E. F. Neal
C. 8S. Childress
Tom Gwyn
John Gwyn
Charles Naylor
E. L. Hall
M. ©. Fowler
R. Clement
Blackburn in Hospital in Washington D C
Charlie T. Blackburn of this city route 5 is a patient at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington D C undergoing treatment. He is reported as improving with the length of his stay yet indefinite.
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Charlie T. Blackburn
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Washington, D. C
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Country Club Pro
Big Earth Movers
Rutledge Creek
South New River
Ashe County
Warren Alberty
Charlie Payne
Paul Freeman
Clyde White
George Stanley
Ray Alberty
Mr. Alberty
Kiwanis
Naha
Elkin Hospital
W. Eric Jarrell
Pilot Road
Mr. Blackburn
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